Definitions 1
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Puns can also use words/phrases that have the same spelling, but more than one definition.
puns
Identify the figurative language "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is alliteration?
Name the figurative language: "He let the cat out of the bag."
Idiom
A statement or situation that at first appears to contradict itself, but makes sense after some reflection.
pardox
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in the beginning.
Alliteration
Identify the example: The slithering snake stalked the small children.
Alliteration
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
Name the figurative language: The water was a glove that enveloped the swimmer’s body.
Metaphor.
A phrase or expression that has been used throughout time and has another meaning then what is being said.
Idiom
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah.
Simile
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: "The boy was a sky scraper, towering over all the other students".
Metaphor
A phrase that shows exaggeration that cannot possibly be true.
Hyperbole
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Two contrasting words/phrases are put together in a sentence. Many times they are next to each other, but not always.
Oxymoron
When the audience expects an event to occur, but something different/unexpected happens
Situational Irony
Name the figurative language: Johnny is feeling under the weather?
Idiom.
That blade of grass just jumped up and got me!
personification
What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
Hyperbole
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the figurative language: "Costs an arm and a leg."
What an idiom?
Name the figurative language: The air was as cold as ice.
Simile
The audience knows something (s) that some character(s) do not.
Dramatic Irony